Social constructions of successful ageing: the case of Ruware Park in Marondera, Zimbabwe
Social constructions of successful ageing provide an invaluable resource for challenging and reconfiguring approaches and models of geriatric care. This paper has established that contrary to normative framing of successful ageing as that (ageing) which ...
Mbulayi, Shingirai Paul +1 more
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This article unpacks the deep engagement of media and communication studies with questions of social construction and the material infrastructures on which media’s role in social construction is based.
Andreas Hepp, Nick Couldry
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Toward “Socially Constructive” Social Constructions of Leadership [PDF]
In their introductory editorial essay for this special issue, David Grant and Gail Fairhurst have done us a great service by valiantly producing a "Sailing Guide" to the Social Construction of Leadership (Fairhurst & Grant, 2010). As with rounding the Capes, this is not a task for the faint of heart.
Grint, Keith, Jackson, Brad
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Shifting from Individualism to Genericism: Personalization as a Conspiracy Theory
With severe mistrust around classical approaches to consciousness, this paper claims that arguments around the notion of “personalization” of media or messages are grounded on a misinterpretation.
Ebrahim Mohseni Ahooei
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Fighting Body Ideal Construction in America as Expressed in Julie Murphy’s Dumplin’
Not only marginalize and discriminate big-size women, social contruction of ideal body has contribute to eating disorder and anorexia on women in America.
Resty Maudina Septiani
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Knowledge, discourse and the methodological turn in Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's the social construction of reality [PDF]
The aim of this article is to reconsider Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann's book Social construction of reality in the context of the contemporary research in sociology of knowledge and sociological discourse analysis.
Ristić Dušan
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The Social Construction of Family Roles in Migrant Worker Income Management to Build Family Economy
This paper aims to explain the social construction of family roles in migrant workers’ income management. Many migrant worker families are unable to manage their income correctly.
Tutik Sulistyowati +3 more
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RECONSTRUCTING TOLERANCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE FOR YOUNG MUSLIMS TOWARDS INTERRELIGIOUS HARMONY
The level of tolerance towards non-Muslims among young Muslims today is concerning. It is because their views on religious differences have the potential to cause religious conflict.
Achmad Faesol
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Obligations as Social Constructs [PDF]
In this paper we formalize sanction-based obligations in the context of Searle's notion of construction of social reality. In particular, we define obligations using a counts as conditional, Anderson's reduction to alethic modal logic and Boella and Lesmo's normative agent. Our analysis presents an alternative criticism to the weakening rule, which has
BOELLA, Guido, VAN DER TORRE L.
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Social Construction of Women Leaders among College Students
Over the years men have been dominant as leaders and consider women less suitable and competent for leadership roles due to various reasons. On the contrary women of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are emerging as successful leaders in various ...
A. Octamaya Tenri Awaru +3 more
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